Latest Fact-Checks In Homeland Security

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Ruben Gallego
Ruben Gallego
stated on April 3, 2018 a tweet
"For what it would cost the (National) Guard to make just two arrests at the border, we could give a homeless veteran permanent housing for an entire year."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2018
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on November 1, 2017 a tweet
The diversity visa lottery is "plagued by fraud."
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By Miriam Valverde • November 6, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 22, 2017 a rally
"So now they take drugs, literally, and they throw it, a hundred pounds of drugs. They throw it over the wall, they have catapults, but they throw it over the wall, and it lands and it hits somebody on the head."
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By Miriam Valverde • September 27, 2017
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on September 24, 2017 an interview
North Korea is "the fifth or fourth most sanctioned nation."
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By John Kruzel • September 27, 2017
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on September 13, 2017 a tweet
Says U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin "wants to use a government jet that costs $25,000 per hour for his honeymoon."
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September 18, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2017 a tweet
"United Nations Resolution is the single largest economic sanctions package ever on North Korea. Over one billion dollars in cost to N.K."
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By Miriam Valverde • August 6, 2017
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on June 8, 2017 in a tweet
The Trump administration has granted amnesty to "nearly 100,000 'Dreamers' "
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By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2017
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos
stated on May 12, 2017 a Fox News interview
"Some of the safest communities in the United States are along the border."
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By Miriam Valverde • May 17, 2017
John Conyers, Jr.
John Conyers, Jr.
stated on March 28, 2017 a subcommittee hearing
"Apprehension rates at the southern border have plummeted since the 1980s, and apprehensions of Mexicans specifically have reached their lowest point in nearly half a century."  
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By Miriam Valverde • April 3, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 20, 2017 a rally in Kentucky
"Since the day of my election, we've already cut illegal immigration at the southern border by 61 percent."
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By Miriam Valverde • March 22, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2017 his first Cabinet meeting
"In the first full month of my administration following the issuance of my executive orders, illegal immigration on our southern border fell by an unprecedented 40 percent."
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By Miriam Valverde • March 14, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 3, 2017 a CNN interview
Israel cut its illegal immigration rate by "99 percent" by constructing a 143-mile fence along its southern border.
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By Miriam Valverde • February 13, 2017
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on January 10, 2017 Sessions' Senate confirmation hearing for attorney general
Of Sen. Jeff Sessions, "you've objected to immigrants volunteering to serve in our armed forces, saying, 'In terms of who's going to be most likely to be a spy, somebody from Cullman, Ala., or somebody from Kenya?'"
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By Miriam Valverde • January 10, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 1, 2016 an MRCTV post
"More than two-thirds of the aliens the Obama administration has brought to the United States under the president's Central American Minors program weren’t actually minors at all."
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By Miriam Valverde • December 7, 2016
Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio
stated on November 18, 2016 a WNYC interview
On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand."  
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By Miriam Valverde • December 1, 2016
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on November 14, 2016 an MSNBC interview
"President-elect Trump's immigration policies are very similar to policies that are sitting right in the Senate and the House today to temporarily suspend immigration from countries that harbor terrorism, to temporarily suspend immigration from Syria until we get better vetting."
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By Miriam Valverde • November 18, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
Says Donald Trump "said as recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation."
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By Miriam Valverde • October 20, 2016
North Carolina Republican Party
North Carolina Republican Party
stated on July 19, 2016 a roll call at the Republican National Convention
Says North Carolina is "home of the largest military installations in the world."
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By Will Doran • July 21, 2016
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on June 14, 2016 a news conference
Last year, "244 suspected terrorists walked into gun shops and attempted to purchase a firearm; 223 were able to get the firearm."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 13, 2016 a speech after a terrorist attack in Orlando
"Hate crimes against American Muslims and mosques have tripled after Paris and San Bernardino."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2016
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